Go Green tips for March 9th

Gotta tip you want to share with Sarah and the Go Green Ride at Five? Email her: sarah@921wvtk.com!

Here Sarah's groovy green tips for Monday, March 8th:

• Be green from the ground up! Test your home for radon. Radon is a naturally occuring, odorless gas that can seep out of the ground into your home. But as the second leading cause of lung cancer, radon is responsible for over 20,000 deaths a year. Get a radon test! Green healthy, 921wvtk!
• Make it a full load when you run that dishwasher and avoid the rinse cycle! Tests show pre-rinsing doesn't improve dishwasher cleaning, and you'll save as much as 20 gallons of water per load. Unless you rinse them before you put them in and then, well, the whole thing’s shot to heck!
• The Go-Green Ride at Five! If you can, leaving your car at home just two days a week will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 1,600 pounds per year! To carpool, or not to carpool, that is the question!


Don't trash it - reuse it! Be creative as you look for new ways to reduce the amount or kinds of household waste. Give cardboard tubes to pet hamsters, gerbils or at my house, Diamond, the rat, yes, my daughter has a pet rat—they’re very tame—the rat, not my daughter. Anyway, moving on, you can plant seeds in an egg carton. Make a flower pot out of a plastic ice cream tub, you know, the big store brand ones. And those big cardboard bins that oatmeal come in. Send your empty ones in to your child’s art teacher. They love having that stuff on hand! By thinking creatively, you will often find new uses for common items and new ways to recycle and reduce waste. That's using your green noggin! The Go Green Ride at Five at 921wvtk!